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Lysistrata Research Paper

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Women’s Work Through out the years, there have been many arguments on whether or not women have the same rights as men. Many can easily answer that question and say no. This does not come as a surprise considering this is basically a man’s world and women just so happen to be here to clean, cook, and reproduce. Women in the nineteenth century lived in a society that was favored by men. Men were the breadwinners of the household. They went out and worked all day while the women stay in the house and looked after the kids. The only worked that women really came close to doing was sewing and laundry. Women in the higher class of the society did not work, and the lower class women went out to work. Some women were creative and started selling …show more content…

His plays are based on the combination of different kinds of humor and political and social satire. One of his most important plays is Lysistrata. In the lysistrata, it is about women withholding sex from their husbands to end the Peloponnesian war. Lysistrata persuades the women to not have sex with their husbands to basically have some peace, but it only caused problems between the sexes. This play shows how much mind control women have over men. They used their social skills to get all the women included in on the plan. Lysistrata is suppose to be the leader and at the beginning of the she curses the weakness of the women because most of them were late. The rest of the women in the play were obsessed with sex just like the men so it took a lot of persuading to get them to get lysistrata to agree. Men love sex there is no other way to put it. So when women refuse to give it up it mess with their head. “According to psychologists, withholding is typically motivated by two goals: to punish the other person, or to maintain the upper hand.” In the play withholding sex is a form of punishment to stop the war from going on and to bring their husbands home. This play raises questions about the social position of women. The most important women almost never left the house expect to attend religious functions. Women had no political rights in Ancient Athens. Lysistrata makes a suggestion that if women were in control of the

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